id:			140334
accession number:	1964.285
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Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka, Jr.), 1916. Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918). Gouache, watercolor, and graphite; sheet: 49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.285

title:				Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka, Jr.)
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creation date:			1916
creation date earliest:		1916
creation date latest:		1916
current location:		
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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culture:	Austria, 20th century
technique:	Gouache, watercolor, and graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Austrian
type:		Drawing
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Kallir 1814

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CREATORS

* Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	beige(1) wove paper, discolored to yellow-beige
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in graphite: egon / schiele 1916 [enclosed in a box]; verso, lower right, in graphite: Serena Lederer

	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
	opening date:   1990-07-05T04:00:00
	<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

	title:		Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988
	opening date:   1991-04-02T05:00:00
	<i>Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper
	opening date:   2018-01-14T05:00:00
	<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Secession im Glaspalast</em>. Kunstausstellungsgebäude, Munich (1917).<br>Possibly exhibited.

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PROVENANCE

	Lederer family, Vienna, sold to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich
	date: by 1917-before 1959
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			* <div><!--block-->According to inscription on verso.</div>
			
			
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	(Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-1959
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	Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959-1964
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1964-
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fun fact:
The child seen in this drawing, Anton Peschka Jr., served as a model for several compositions by Egon Schiele.

digital description:
Egon Schiele depicted a small child, the son of a friend, in this drawing devoid of setting. The child teeters at an awkward angle, seemingly unsupported but for a multipatterned fabric wrap that occupies the artist’s primary interest. This contorted pose is typical of Schiele’s many drawings of people in which he explored the expressive capacity of the human form, often using the body to indicate their psychic state (see another drawing by Schiele nearby). He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918 at age 28, leaving a vast number of drawings.

wall description:
Egon Schiele depicted a small child, the son of a friend, in this drawing devoid of setting. The child teeters at an awkward angle, seemingly unsupported but for a multipatterned fabric wrap that occupies the artist’s primary interest. This contorted pose is typical of Schiele’s many drawings of people in which he explored the expressive capacity of the human form, often using the body to indicate their psychic state (see another drawing by Schiele nearby). He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918 at age 28, leaving a vast number of drawings.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Schiele, Egon. <em>Zeichnungen Egon Schiele: 12 Blatter in Originalgrosse</em>. Vienna: Richard Lanyi, 1917.
	page number: 	Reproduced: plate 10
	url:		

	<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 8-9; Reproduced: p. 42, no. 236
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	Kallir, Jane. <em>Egon Schiele: The Complete Works</em>. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 560, no. 1814
	url:		

	DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 7, p. 236-37, p. 297; Reproduced: p. 237
	url:		

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IMAGES

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